The 主 family
主 · zhǔ · ㄓㄨˇ — master
Know 主 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 住、注、註、駐、柱. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 住zhù · ㄓㄨˋ部首 亻 單人旁 · personto live; to stay; to stop82%
- 注zhù · ㄓㄨˋ部首 氵 三點水 · waterto pour into; to flow into; to inject; to focus (one's spirit, gaze etc) on a single point; to concentrate82%
- 註zhù · ㄓㄨˋ部首 言 · wordsto annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text; an annotation; an explanatory note82%
- 駐zhù · ㄓㄨˋ部首 馬 · horseto halt; to stay82%
- 柱zhù · ㄓㄨˋ部首 木 · treepillar82%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 主 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 主 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 82%.
Words this family builds
- 注意
- 主意
- 抓住
- 住手
- 記住
- 公主
- 主人
- 主要
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